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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. These MOOCs are customarily 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 dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Romania to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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