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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are considering today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Albania to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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