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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better understand these important new open educational undertakings. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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