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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in online education have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. These massive open courses are free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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