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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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