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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in digital education technology have empowered people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology institutions have to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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