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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education have empowered learners all around the world to take part in courses online. 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. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this developing desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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