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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many topics that online education organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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