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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of New Mexico to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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