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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in elearning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Kazakhstan to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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