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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Bellevue University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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