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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern improvements in online education technology are enabling humans in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better understand these intriguing new open education undertakings. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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