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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advancements in digital education technology make it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these MOOCs is respectable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the 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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