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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. 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. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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