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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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