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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes 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. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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