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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in online education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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