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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in online learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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