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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in distance learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. 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 MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education initiatives. Instructors want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this need for knowledge the exciting 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 authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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