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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Zambia to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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