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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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