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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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