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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to understand these new open education experiments. People want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also describes the major 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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