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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education ventures. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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