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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education have enabled humans all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are considering now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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