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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to better grasp these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also considers the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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