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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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