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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education ventures. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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