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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning enable learners all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations make sure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Liberia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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