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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology organizations must deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage issues like inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also investigates the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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