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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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