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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online learning are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different strategies are being used by organizations like Niue to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these exciting new open education ventures. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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