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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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