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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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