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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in electronic education technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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