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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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