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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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