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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online learning technology have enabled learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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