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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to take 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. MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This interesting new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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