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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Maldives to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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