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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education make it possible for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. 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 MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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