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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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