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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online classes. 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. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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