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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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