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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online education are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to participate 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. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Estonia to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also reviews the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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