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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Columbia University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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