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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic education technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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