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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in digital education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mt. San Jacinto College to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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