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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in digital education technology have empowered students all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire 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 subjects. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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