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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in learning technology make it possible for people in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so quickly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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