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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest changes in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. 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 massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ball State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This amazing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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