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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning enable learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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