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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new developments in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like Nauru to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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