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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in online education enable people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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