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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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