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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. 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 massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Isle of Man to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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