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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. People want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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