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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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