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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in learning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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