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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in learning technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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