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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive open courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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