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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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