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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Ethiopia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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