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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in digital education technology enable people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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