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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online courses. 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. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Pitcairn Islands to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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