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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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 massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Utah Valley University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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