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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in online education technology are empowering humans all around the world to be participants in classes 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. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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