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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection that investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education