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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have provided the means for students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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 massive open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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