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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. 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 MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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