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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in elearning enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cambodia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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