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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are empowering humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? How can educators manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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