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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology are enabling humans in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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