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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning are enabling learners all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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