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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in digital education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these important new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the 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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