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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in elearning have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like New Zealand to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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