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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massive open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders want to understand these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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