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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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