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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open education endeavours. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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