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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can we make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Niger to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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