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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Vietnam to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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