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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this expanding desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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