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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New developments in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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