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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in online education have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive need for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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