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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are usually 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 a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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