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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online learning technology are making it possible for students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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