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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning are enabling people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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