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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Palau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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