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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like McHenry County College to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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