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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning enable people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these fascinating new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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