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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are several issues that online education organizations are having to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also researches the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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