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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education enable people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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