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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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