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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in online classes. These MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these new open education endeavours. Researchers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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