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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New improvements in digital education technology are empowering learners all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kauffman Fellows Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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