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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in elearning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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