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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education have enabled students all around the world to take classes online. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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