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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in digital education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Slovakia to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing need for knowledge the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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