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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Howland Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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