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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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