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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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