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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to take online classes. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Saint Pierre and Miquelon to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also explores the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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