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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to take part in courses online. 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 massive open courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also investigates the key 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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