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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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