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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering students all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Facebook to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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