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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to perceive how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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