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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in digital education technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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