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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that learning technology organizations must deal with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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