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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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