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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Italy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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