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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to take online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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