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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in e-learning have made it possible for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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