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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Togo to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education endeavours. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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