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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in electronic education technology enable students all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that distance learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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