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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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