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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Lithuania to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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