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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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