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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in digital education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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