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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning enable people in every nation on earth to take 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 online MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Teachers want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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