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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Universities want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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