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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic educational technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free 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 lot of issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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