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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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