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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning have empowered learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several subjects that online education institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these significant new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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