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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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