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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education have made it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Malta to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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