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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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