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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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