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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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