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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous subjects that learning technology institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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