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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology enable humans all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. In response to this expanding demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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