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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are struggling with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Navassa Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This dramatic new book also considers 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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