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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent changes in distance learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in classes online. 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. These MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are struggling with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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