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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning have enabled people all around the world to take courses online. MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Portugal to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these open education endeavours. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key 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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