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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are struggling with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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