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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Hong Kong to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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