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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online education technology make it possible for humans all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with now that distance learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado Boulder to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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