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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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