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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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