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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in e-learning technology are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Montenegro to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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