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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also addresses 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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