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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants 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 learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Australia to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. People want to know how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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