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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by institutions like American Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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