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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in electronic education technology are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Utah State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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