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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in digital education technology enable learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because blended learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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