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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to take 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. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Burkina Faso to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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