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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes 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 MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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