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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning enable humans all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers certify that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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