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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in elearning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that blended learning organizations are having to consider now that online learning technology is developing so fast. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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