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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New improvements in learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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