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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest developments in online learning are enabling students in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ascension to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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