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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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