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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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