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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in e-learning technology make it possible for students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cyprus to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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