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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in digital education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Madagascar to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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