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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning have made it possible for learners all around 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. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to understand these compelling new open education ventures. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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