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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in digital education technology have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle problems like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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