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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also analyzes the 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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