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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are considering more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This exciting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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