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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also talks about the 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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