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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in digital education technology have empowered humans in all parts of the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Utah State University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these interesting new open education ventures. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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