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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in learning technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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