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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology are empowering humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Researchers want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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