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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. 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. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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