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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 massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online learning technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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