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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in electronic education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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