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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online learning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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