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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education are enabling learners in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this desideratum for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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