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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in distance learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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