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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education ventures. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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