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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in electronic educational technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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