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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Renton Technical College to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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