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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in distance learning are empowering students all over the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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