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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in learning technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bosnia and Herzegovina to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this growing demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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