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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in digital education technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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