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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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