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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern developments in distance learning are providing the means for learners all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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