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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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