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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology make it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing demand for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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