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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Norfolk Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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