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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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