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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this developing desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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