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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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