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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to take classes online. 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 MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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