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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent changes in electronic education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Nigeria to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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