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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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