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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in learning technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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