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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology are empowering students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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