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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in online learning have enabled students all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations are dealing with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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