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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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