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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in digital education technology enable students all over the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Venezuela to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these promising new open education undertakings. Instructors want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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