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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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