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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education ventures. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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