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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning enable humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education ventures. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies 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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