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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always 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 several topics that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these exciting new open educational endeavours. Scientists want to better understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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