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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in e-learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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