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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Niger to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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