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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects related to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to be more aware of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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