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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education have made it possible for humans all around the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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