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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part 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. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants need to understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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