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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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