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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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