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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in learning technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major 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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