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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning make it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to better understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Academics want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also describes 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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