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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education institutions must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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