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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online education enable learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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