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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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