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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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