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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritania to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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