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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in e-learning make it possible for students all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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