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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in learning technology enable people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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