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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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