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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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