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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that blended learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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