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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This inspiring new book also examines the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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