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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in digital education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can students certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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