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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in online education are empowering students in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders need to understand these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also discusses the key 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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