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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Japan to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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