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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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