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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Somaliland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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