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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that learning technology organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also examines 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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