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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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