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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in learning technology are making it possible for humans all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Guam to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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