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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in digital education technology have empowered humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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