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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in elearning technology are enabling learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Monaco to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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