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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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