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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology have empowered students all around the world to be participants in courses 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. These MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also deals with 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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