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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education enable learners in every nation on earth to take part 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 generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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