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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in online learning are enabling learners in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this need for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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