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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology have empowered humans all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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