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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in learning technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like UC San Diego to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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