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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New advances in digital education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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