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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning organizations have to consider in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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