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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are struggling with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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