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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New changes in distance learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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