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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology are enabling humans all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. 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 massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is developing so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Excelsior College to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to comprehend how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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