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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these intriguing new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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