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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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