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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education are empowering people all over the world to take classes online. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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