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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education technology enable learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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