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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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