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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New gains in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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