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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online classes. 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. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Mauritius to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive these important new open education initiatives. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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