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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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