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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online learning are making it possible for people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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