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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive these significant new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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