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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Intellectuals want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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