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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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