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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Alfred State College of Technology - SUNY to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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