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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education have provided the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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