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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics related to open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a demand to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these exciting new open education initiatives. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This inspiring new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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