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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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