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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in digital education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for data the interesting 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 dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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