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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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