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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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