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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education have empowered learners in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tunisia to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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