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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are empowering students all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to better perceive these important new open educational initiatives. Researchers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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