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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education are providing the means for humans all over the world to take online classes. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Teachers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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