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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in elearning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Oman to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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