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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around 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 online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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