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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have empowered humans all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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