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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in online education enable people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Libya to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other participants want to understand these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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