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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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