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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning have enabled people in all parts of the world to take courses online. These MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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