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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are empowering learners all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the 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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