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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like New Caledonia to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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