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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning make it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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