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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Professors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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