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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to take 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. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to better understand these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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