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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in learning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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