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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning technology have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also researches the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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