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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education endeavours. Lecturers want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also researches the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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