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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are empowering people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education institutions must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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