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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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