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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest changes in electronic education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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