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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advancements in distance learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in online courses. 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. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this growing need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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