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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Renton Technical College to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants would like to better understand these new open education endeavours. Researchers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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