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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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