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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education are enabling people all around the world to participate in classes 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. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Czech Republic to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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