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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in learning technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Educators want to better understand how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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