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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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