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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in elearning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Meetup to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these promising new open education undertakings. Professors want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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