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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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