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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that blended learning institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this desire for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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