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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Madagascar to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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