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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in e-learning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Teachers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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