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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education initiatives. Academics want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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