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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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