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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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