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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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