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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants 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 MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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