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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational initiatives. Students want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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