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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in digital education technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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