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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Montserrat to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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