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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic educational technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators make sure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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