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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also researches the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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