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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology are enabling learners all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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