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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in online learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Liechtenstein to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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