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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to take part in online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like South Ossetia to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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