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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations are considering more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Instructors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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