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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses 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. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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