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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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