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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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