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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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