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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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