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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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