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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these promising new open education ventures. Students want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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