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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also analyzes the most important 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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