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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology enable learners all around the world to take online courses. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations must deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Christmas Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to be more aware of these exciting new open education initiatives. Trainers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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