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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bolivia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also researches the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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