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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Seychelles to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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