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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online learning enable students all around the world to be participants in online classes. 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 MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these new open educational undertakings. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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