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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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