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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning have enabled students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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