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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning organizations have to consider today because learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better understand these exciting new open educational ventures. Academics want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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