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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education have enabled humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these new open education experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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