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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to take courses online. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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