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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education technology enable people all over the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Palmyra Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to understand these significant new open education undertakings. Students want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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