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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic educational technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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