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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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