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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take part 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. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mayotte to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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