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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in online education enable humans all around the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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