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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are empowering 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. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Monaco to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As blended learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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