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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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