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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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