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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern developments in e-learning are empowering people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. People want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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