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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. 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. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Queen Maud Land to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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