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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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