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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Angola to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these intriguing new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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