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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses 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. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As blended learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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