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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning technology enable students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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