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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in elearning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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