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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in e-learning are enabling humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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