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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advancements in elearning are enabling learners all over the world to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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