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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Qatar to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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