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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in blended learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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