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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These online MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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