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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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