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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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