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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning technology are enabling learners in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are considering in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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