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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like British Antarctic Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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