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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in distance learning have empowered students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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