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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in online classes. Massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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