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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online learning are making it possible for people all over the world 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. MOOC classes are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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