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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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