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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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