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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in elearning are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key 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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