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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in online education technology have enabled learners all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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