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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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