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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants would like to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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