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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology have empowered learners all around the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Malawi to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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