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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in distance learning technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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