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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)