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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that talks about issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in digital education technology have empowered students all over the world to take online courses. MOOCs are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Johnston Atoll to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants want to better understand these exciting new open education undertakings. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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