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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest changes in distance learning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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