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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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