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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning are providing the means for students all around the world to take 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. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Marquette University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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