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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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