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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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