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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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