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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Santa Clara University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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