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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in digital education technology have enabled students all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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