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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education undertakings. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also deals with the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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