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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bowling Green State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Academics want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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