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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education technology have enabled students in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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