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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in digital education technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desideratum for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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