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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in e-learning enable students in every nation on earth to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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