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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have empowered learners all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Tristan da Cunha to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education ventures. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also talks about the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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