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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have empowered students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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