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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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