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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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