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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have enabled humans all over the world to participate 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. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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