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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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