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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning technology are empowering people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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