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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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