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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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