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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology make it possible for humans all over the world to be participants 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 online MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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