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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in digital education technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC classes are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these open education endeavours. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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