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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. People want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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