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MOOCs and Open Education is a edited collection which describes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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