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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in digital education technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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