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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This sensational new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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