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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are empowering people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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