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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning are enabling people in nations all aver the world to take classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also explores the most important 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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