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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in elearning have enabled learners all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Universities want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This book also talks about the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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