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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning are providing the means for students all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Reunion to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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