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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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