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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in elearning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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