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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better understand these fascinating new open education experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the most important 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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