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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in online education are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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