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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. 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. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Abkhazia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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