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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Professors want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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