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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to better understand these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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