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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning have enabled learners 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. 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. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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