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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in elearning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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