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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in e-learning are empowering humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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