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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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