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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology have enabled learners all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these compelling new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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