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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in electronic educational technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of the Arts to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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