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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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