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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Excelsior College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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