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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to better comprehend these important new open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this demand for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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