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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in digital education technology are empowering people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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