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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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