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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in digital education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology institutions are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Germany to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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