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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Barbados to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this demand for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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