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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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