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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Costa Rica to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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