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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Babson College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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