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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern developments in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Cook Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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