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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in electronic education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Everybody wants to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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