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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Berklee College of Music to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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