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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in electronic educational technology enable people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these significant new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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