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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic education technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Guinea-Bissau to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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