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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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