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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are empowering humans all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sudan to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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