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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in online learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guadeloupe to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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