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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have enabled learners in all parts of the world 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. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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