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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online learning technology have provided the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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