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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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