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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOCs are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also deals with the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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