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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in elearning are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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