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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in digital education technology are empowering learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by institutions like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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