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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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