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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in learning technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cuba to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational ventures. People want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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