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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open education endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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