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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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