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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants want to better understand these open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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