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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education are empowering humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Rochester to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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