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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in online education are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always 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 institutions have to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Netherlands to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this expanding demand for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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