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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning technology have made it possible for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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