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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the major 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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