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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in elearning are enabling humans all over the world to take part in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Otis College of Art and Design to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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