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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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 typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open educational experiments. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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