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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are struggling with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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