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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to understand these fascinating new open education undertakings. Students want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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