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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to take courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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