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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in electronic education technology have enabled students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education ventures. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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