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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education enable students in nations all aver the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these important new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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