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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that deals with subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in digital education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Botswana to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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