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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. 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 online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Trainers want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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