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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands Antilles to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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