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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning institutions are considering today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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