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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education are empowering humans in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Educators want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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