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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in digital education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to understand these important new open educational endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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