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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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