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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also considers the key 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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