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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in digital education technology enable students in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are considering today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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