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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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