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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take 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. MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. People want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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