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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are struggling with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these open education experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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