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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Latvia to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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