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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. 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. These massive online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Syria to conduct these massively open online courses? How can organizations handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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