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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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