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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also describes the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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