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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in digital education technology are enabling students all over the world to take online classes. 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 learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Researchers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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