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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in e-learning technology have empowered people all over the world to take online classes. MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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