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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in e-learning technology are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Luxembourg to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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