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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in online education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to participate in classes online. 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 MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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