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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in electronic educational technology are empowering students all around the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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