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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which reviews subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like India to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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