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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology enable humans all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because blended learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for details 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 most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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