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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This definitive new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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