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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in 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 free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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