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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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