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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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