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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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