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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning have enabled people all over the world to participate 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 MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Babson College to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these significant new open education endeavours. Teachers want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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