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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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