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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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