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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the key 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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