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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in e-learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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