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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Greece to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the major 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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