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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning make it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend these exciting new open education initiatives. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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