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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about these new open educational endeavours. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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