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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in digital education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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