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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have made it possible for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other participants need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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