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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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