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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take classes 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. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better perceive these promising new open educational endeavours. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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