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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in online education technology enable humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Lebanon to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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