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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic education technology have enabled students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants ensure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Romania to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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