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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education are empowering people all over the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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