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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northern Cyprus to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Public servants want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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