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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in digital education technology enable learners in nations all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Kirkwood Community College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also examines the most important 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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