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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations are struggling with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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