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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in technology-enhanced learning enable people all around the world to take classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Costa Rica to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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