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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in online learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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