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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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