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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology enable learners all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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