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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The New School to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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