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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. People want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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