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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guyana to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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