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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology have made it possible for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This definitive new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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