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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in e-learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational initiatives. Professors want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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