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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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