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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to take online courses. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning institutions are dealing with now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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