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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have enabled people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other participants need to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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