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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open education ventures. Trainers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desideratum for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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