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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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