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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this growing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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