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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education technology have enabled students all around the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Thailand to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants want to understand these open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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