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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in elearning have enabled people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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