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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in electronic education technology enable humans all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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