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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in elearning technology are enabling people all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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