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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Virginia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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