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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in learning technology are providing the means for people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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