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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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