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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in digital education technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This thrilling new book also examines the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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