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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic educational technology have empowered students all over the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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