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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in digital education technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Heard Island and McDonald Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand these important new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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