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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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