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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic educational technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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