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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in e-learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to understand these new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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